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Amiga Forever VS Basilisk II

Compare Amiga Forever VS Basilisk II and see what are their differences

Amiga Forever logo Amiga Forever

The official Amiga preservation, emulation and support suite with games, demoscene, history and culture.

Basilisk II logo Basilisk II

Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator.
  • Amiga Forever Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-09-23
  • Basilisk II Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-08-23

Amiga Forever videos

Amiga Forever 2016 Review (Amiga Emulator)

More videos:

  • Tutorial - Amiga Forever 9.1 Review and Tutorial - Episode 93
  • Review - Amiga Forever 9 Review

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Amiga Forever and Basilisk II)
Gaming
46 46%
54% 54
Emulators
55 55%
45% 45
Group Chat & Notifications
Cloud Computing
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Basilisk II should be more popular than Amiga Forever. It has been mentiond 9 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Amiga Forever mentions (1)

  • Are Amiga 500s beginning to be overpriced or have they always been like this?
    In my opinion, before you plunk down a bunch of cash on old hardware that is likely to be underwhelming (and costly to get moderately functional without access to vintage peripherals), I’d recommend you look at Amiga Forever from Cloanto (https://amigaforever.com). This will include legal ROMs and everything you need to get started on a modern PC. If you must have a hardware solution, look into the The A500 mini... Source: 12 months ago

Basilisk II mentions (9)

  • Software Applications Incorporated
    Https://infinitemac.org, which is https://basilisk.cebix.net compiled for the web using https://emscripten.org. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
  • How to Get and Run Rolypolys 2
    Basilisk II, at least for me, had issues when it came to loading game saves. It also had an issue where sound cut out entirely about an hour into the game, so I cannot personally recommend it for this particular game. I was recommended SheepShaver as an alternative. Source: almost 1 year ago
  • [Mac/PC] [90s?] Top down 2D action/arcade game
    ShadowWraith would have run best on a Mac with a 68040 processor, at least 10 MB RAM, running System 7.1, 7.5, or 7.6.1. You could try setting up Basilisk II to run it. MAME’s Mac emulation has also come along quite a bit in the last few years, although it can still be a bit rough around the edges. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Anyone have access to Apple’s serial number database? Case refers to a PowerMac10,1 with 1,42GHz G4 but actually boots into a PowerMac10,2 with 1,5GHz G4. SN is YM54904UTAA. Might just be the cleanest and prettiest lunch box Mac I have ever laid my hands on after a restoration job.
    I have a Mac mini (Early 2006) (Intel Core Solo) that I upgraded to a 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo, on which I run the Basilisk II 68k emulator (informative support forums are here). Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Any way to open windows 69 word files
    That's actually really good news and explains why they don't have a file extension! It might still take some work, but you could very likely find the exact version of Word that he used to create the files on macintoshgarden.org and could then use something like Basilisk II to run it and open the files. Hopefully from there it's just a simple Save As to something a modern computer can understand. Source: over 2 years ago
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